HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Ghana
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Songhai
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Sheikh
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Mali
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Detailed explanation-1: -Travel and trade in Songhai Trade significantly influenced the course of history in West Africa. The wealth made through trade was used to build larger kingdoms and empires. To protect their trade interests, these kingdoms built strong armies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Songhai empire, also spelled Songhay, great trading state of West Africa (flourished 15th–16th century), centred on the middle reaches of the Niger River in what is now central Mali and eventually extending west to the Atlantic coast and east into Niger and Nigeria.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Songhai Empire (aka Songhay, c. 1460-c. 1591) covered what is today southern Mauritania and Mali. It replaced the Mali Empire (1240-1645) as the most important state in West Africa.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Reign of Askia the Great His reign marked the beginning of the Askia dynasty. Askia the Great strengthened the Songhai Empire and made it the largest in West Africa’s history by adding tributary lands to the east and to the west.